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Since the Dilly, Dally, Delay & Stall Law Firms are adding their billable hours, the Toyota U.S.A. and Route 44 Toyota posts have been separated here:

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Tuesday, January 26, 2016

RSN: Obama Bans Solitary Confinement for Juveniles in Federal Prisons, Daniel Holtzclaw and the Limits of "Community Policing"




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Bile, Bullshit, and Bernie 
Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton take part in a presidential debate in Las Vegas, October 13, 2015. (photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images) 
Corey Robin, Jacobin 
Robin writes: "Right now, the voters of Iowa and New Hampshire are telling the pundits and fetters: we are reality, deny us at your own peril." 
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Obama Bans Solitary Confinement for Juveniles in Federal Prisons 
Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post 
Eilperin writes: "President Obama on Monday announced a ban on solitary confinement for juvenile offenders in the federal prison system, saying the practice is overused and has the potential for devastating psychological consequences." 
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Daniel Holtzclaw and the Limits of "Community Policing" 
Victoria M. Massie, The Intercept 
Massie writes: "Law enforcement is facing a crisis of legitimacy, and as a method of alleviating mistrust, political figures have invested heavily in 'community policing.' Since its inception, however, the tactic has been more concerned with public perception than effective implementation, and it fails to adequately account for the power differential at the core of Holtzclaw's abuses." 
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Creator of Planned Parenthood Videos Indicted in Texas 
Sarah Ferris, The Hill 
Ferris writes: "An investigation into Planned Parenthood took a bizarre twist on Monday after a grand jury brought charges against the pair of individuals claiming to expose the group instead." 
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Charter School Allegedly Forces Out Students With Disabilities 
Casey Quinlan, ThinkProgress 
Quinlan writes: "Success Academy Charter Schools, which operates 34 schools in New York City, has been around for a decade. But for years, the charter schools network has been dogged with accusations that its success is owed in part to its ability to force out students who struggle to work in a controlled, zero-tolerance environment." 
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'I Wish I Could Die': Meeting the Man Who Helped Trigger the Arab Spring 
Clemens Hoges, Spiegel 
Hoges writes: "Two men triggered the Arab Spring. The world remembers one of them, the fruit vendor Mohamed Bouazizi. The other was Hosni Kaliya." 
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Bernie Bashes Hillary on Keystone and Other Pipelines 
Katie Herzog, Grist 
Herzog writes: "At a Democratic candidate town hall forum in Iowa, Sanders argued that he has the judgment to be president, pointing out that, unlike Clinton, he was correct from the start in opposing both the Iraq War and Keystone XL." 
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